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Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State
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Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to position Israel as the modern day Sparta, and to sell […]

Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

Israel’s Gaza City Invasion: Forced Migration and Hospitals Besieged and Bombed

09/23/2025 By International Middle East Media Center

UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State  – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

UK, France and other Western Nations recognize Palestinian State – but symbolic Action won’t make Statehood happen

09/23/2025 By The Conversation

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Americans in Pain: Confronting the Phantom Limbs of America’s Foreign Wars

Americans in Pain: Confronting the Phantom Limbs of America’s Foreign Wars

( Tomdispatch.com ) – America’s War on Terror, launched in response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, […]

Andrea Mazzarino

Gay rights
Anti-Trans Politicians Are Following the Nazi Playbook

Anti-Trans Politicians Are Following the Nazi Playbook

By Mitchell Zimmerman ( Otherwords ) – The 1920s were both good and bad times for the Jews of Germany. They’d been granted the same […]

OtherWords

Democratic Party
With Two Damaging Trump Trials during the Campaign, did Joe Biden just become a Shoo-in in 2024?

With Two Damaging Trump Trials during the Campaign, did Joe Biden just become a Shoo-in in 2024?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s two indictments will likely throw the 2024 election to Joe Biden. Assuming Biden remains in good health and there […]

Juan Cole

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Hate Groups' Political Influence Growing: Southern Poverty Law Center

Hate Groups’ Political Influence Growing: Southern Poverty Law Center

By: Ashley Murray – J   ( Minnesota Reformer) – WASHINGTON — More than 1,200 hate and anti-government extremist groups were active across the United […]

Minnesota Reformer

Israel/ Palestine
Official Report: Palestinian-Israelis Pay higher Interest Rates on Loans in Israel than Jews

Official Report: Palestinian-Israelis Pay higher Interest Rates on Loans in Israel than Jews

( Middle East Monitor ) – Arab citizens in Israel pay higher interest rates on bank loans than Jews, Israel’s Hebrew newspaper Maariv reported on […]

Middle East Monitor

Batteries
Using electric water Heaters to store renewable Energy could do the work of 2 million home Batteries – and save us Billions

Using electric water Heaters to store renewable Energy could do the work of 2 million home Batteries – and save us Billions

By David Roche, University of Technology Sydney | – Australia’s energy transition is well under way. Some 3 million households have rooftop solar and sales […]

The Conversation

African-Americans
Top 3 Crimes Trump should have been Indicted for besides Mishandling Documents

Top 3 Crimes Trump should have been Indicted for besides Mishandling Documents

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Although the saga of Trump’s mishandling of classified documents, as revealed in the 38-count indictment, is shocking to anyone who […]

Juan Cole

Green Energy
Germany gets 1/3 of its Electricity from Wind, 48% from Renewables in First Quarter

Germany gets 1/3 of its Electricity from Wind, 48% from Renewables in First Quarter

( Clean Energy Wire ) – Wind power has become Germany’s most important electricity source again in the first quarter of 2023, according to an […]

Clean Energy Wire

China
Sudan conflict: how China and Russia are involved and the differences between them

Sudan conflict: how China and Russia are involved and the differences between them

By Marcel Plichta, University of St Andrews and Mateja Peter, University of St Andrews | – As clashes continue between the Sudanese military and rapid […]

The Conversation

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